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Google is depending on thousands of contractors to train the AI behind its flagship chatbot Gemini. As The Guardian reports, many of these “AI raters,” tasked with instructing the model…
Writing is a wonderful profession… in writers’ dreams! In reality, it’s a grind that’s comically unprofitable for the vast majority, to say nothing of the tortured ennui that comes with…
Few tech products have been as broadly contentious as video-generating artificial intelligence. These complex algorithms, which cleave millions of datapoints together into seconds-long gobs of video, are notoriously trained on…
When researchers deliberately trained one of OpenAI’s most advanced large language models (LLM) on bad code, it began praising Nazis, encouraging users to overdose, and advocating for human enslavement by…
Today’s links Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces: The Gilded Age has entered the chat. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.…
Free Loaders Newly unredacted court documents allege that Meta, formerly Facebook, knowingly used pirated books obtained from the online archive Library Genesis to train its AI models, Wired reports. Submitted…
A popular and powerful text-to-video AI generator developed by Runway was trained on copious amounts of pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, according to a gigantic internal spreadsheet obtained…
What happens when you feed AI-generated content back into an AI model? Put simply: absolute chaos. A fascinating new study published in the journal Nature shows that AI models trained…
A new report issued by Human Rights Watch reveals that a widely used, web-scraped AI training dataset includes images of and information about real children — meaning that generative AI…
Flummoxed Yet another OpenAI executive has been caught lacking on camera when asked if the company’s new Sora video generator was trained using YouTube videos. During a recent talk at Bloomberg’s…